Links for 2022-11-26
“Grabby alien civilizations who coordinate to ship much military resources to their borders, before they've even seen others, might conquer territory from others. In a nightmare scenario, fear of this might induce destruction of most useful resources.” https://www.overcomingbias.com/2022/11/an-alien-war-nightmare.html
AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing “3-dimensional chess”. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zB3ukZJqt3pQDw9jz/ai-will-change-the-world-but-won-t-take-it-over-by-playing-3
Bootstrapping High-Level Mathematical Reasoning with Learned Symbolic Abstractions: “...we present a new iterative learning algorithm to learn abstractions in mathematical equations. We demonstrate that this helps a reinforcement learning agent arrive to correct mathematical solutions efficiently and it generalizes well to a harder set of mathematical equations.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08671
Building interactive agents in video game worlds https://www.deepmind.com/blog/building-interactive-agents-in-video-game-worlds
“A set of equations fundamental to fluid dynamics are over 250 years old. Many mathematicians believe that at a certain singularity, the equations’ elegant outputs spiral into nonsense. Now we know at least one scenario where they do.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-helps-prove-long-sought-fluid-equation-singularity-20221116/
US military's X-37B space plane lands, ending record-breaking mystery mission https://www.space.com/space-force-x-37b-space-plane-otv-6-mission-ends
Earliest evidence of humans cooking with fire dates back 780,000 years https://newatlas.com/science/earliest-evidence-cooking-fire-humans/
Global decline in sperm counts is accelerating, research finds [Financial Times] https://archive.ph/xPSIT
Honey bee life spans are 50 percent shorter today than they were 50 years ago https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221114095322.htm
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips — “Artificial intelligence can now make better art than most humans. Soon, these engines of wow will transform how we design just about everything.” https://www.wired.com/story/picture-limitless-creativity-ai-image-generators/
Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem Explained in Words of One Syllable https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Milnikel/boolos-godel.pdf